Environment, race and nation reconsidered
Reflections on Aboriginal land claims in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5794549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter J Usher (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 365-382 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2003.00029.x |
| OpenAlex | W2098973288 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 10 |
The course of development in Northern Canada has been transformed in the last 30 years by the comprehensive land claims process. For much of the twentieth century, the settlement and development of northern Canada was experienced by Aboriginal people as a continuing process of encroachment on (and sometimes transformation of) their traditional territories, and of restriction of their customary livelihood. Examples of this process included the alteration of river systems by impoundment and diversion, the pollution and contamination of river systems, government restrictions on hunting and fishing and population relocation and sedentarization. Aboriginal political and legal action led, in the 1970s, to the establishment of a formal process for resolving Aboriginal land claims, and to revised judicial interpretation of Aboriginal and treaty rights. The paper describes how geographers have contributed to documenting those claims, and how land claims settlements have altered the land and resource regimes in northern Canada, and concludes with some observations on the effectiveness of those remedies, and on the changes in Canadian perspectives on Aboriginal northerners, the northern environment and northern development
Human settlement · Relocation · Settlement (finance · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology
Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices
Extra-activism
The Devil in the Details
In This Separation
From Wards of the State to Subjects of Recognition?
Contract and Usurpation
Disrupting a Settler-Colonial Grammar of Place
The Ancestors We Get to Choose
Adaptive Capacity and Community-Based Natural Resource Management
La dimension nordique de la géopolitique du Québec
There Is a River in Me
Advancing Indigenous futures with two-eyed seeing
(Re)Visiting the North
Hydraulic Imperialism
‘The forest is our inheritance’
Native Studies at the Horizon of Death
Making Peoples into Populations
Indigenous Transnationalism and the Aids Pandemic
"Not the Almighty"
Reframing Indigenous Territories
Zaagtoonaa Nibi (We Love the Water)
Traditional use of medicinal plants in the boreal forest of Canada
Seeking Social Equity in National Parks
Towards an Institutional Counter-Cartography of Nurses’ Wound Work
Inuit identity and regionalization in the Canadian Central and Eastern Arctic
Plan Nord
Towards a SpatioTemporal Data Model for Traditional Ecological Knowledge/Indigenous Knowledge
Resource sterilization
Between Kitimat LNG Terminal and Monkey Beach
From cutlines to traplines
Negotiating Indigenous knowledge at the science-policy interface
Circumpolar stakeholder perspectives on Geographic Information Systems for communicating the health impacts of development
A New Staples Industry? Complexity, Governance and Canada’s Diamond Mines
Negotiating Nature
Bringing Indigenous Kamchatka to Google Earth
Employment Relations in the Neostaples Resource Economy
Towards shared ownership
From state-initiated to Indigenous-driven infrastructure
From dispossession to decolonization
Looking back—and looking ahead—35 years after the Inuit land use and occupancy project
Fantastic topographies
To what extent can online mapping be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada
The politics of refusal
Sharing the colonial burden
Introduction to the special section on Indigenous spatial capital
Regimes of Ethical Value? Landscape, Race and Representation in the Canadian Diamond Industry
Nation to Nation
Social cohesion in Canada
Advancing basic income as a policy tool for food systems sustainability
Go North, Young Scholar, Go North
A geography of reconciliation
Overlap
Subjects of Empire
All Strings Attached
Doing Sovereignty in Native North America
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |